From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 9:52:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DF537BD92 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA77373; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007271652.JAA77373@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Boot loader In-Reply-To: <002c01bff7e7$43f551c0$4100000a@doot> from Mitch Vincent at "Jul 27, 2000 12:25:23 pm" To: Mitch Vincent Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mitch Vincent wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I've been trying to install a dual boot FreeBSD / Linux system, I haven't > ever had trouble doing that before -- however this time it seems that it > just won't boot. > > I have the FreeBSD boot loader in the MBR, it will boot Linux fine when I > hit F1 but if I try hitting F2 (FreeBSD) it just beeps, nothing more.. > > I've installed and re-installed FreeBSD.. No luck.. > > The system is a Dual Celeron, with a Maxtor ATA/66 30 gig drive, split in > two (that was interesting with Linux -- had to use Gentus to get ATA/66 > support on install).. Still, that shouldn't effect anything, should it? > > Does anyone have any ideas? Your FreeBSD partition is beyond the 1024 cylinder. One solution is to install 4.1 (released yesterday), which can automagically boot beyond the 1023rd cylinder. > Thanks!!! > > -Mitch -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message